Notorious teacher sex scandals

Rachel Respess and Shelley Dufresne

In October 2014, two Louisiana teachers, Shelley Dufresne, 32, and Rachel Repress, 24 reportedly had group sex with a student. The duo allegedly had sex with the 16-year-old male student at Repress' apartment in Kenner, outside New Orleans. Dufresne is also accused of having sex with the teenager prior to that encounter, at her home in Montz, Louisiana.

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Danielle Watkins

Danielle Watkins, a 32-year-old teacher from Connecticut, is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student during the summer/fall of 2014. Her 18-year-old victim reportedly told police that when the teen tried to break off the relationship, Watkins assaulted him and threatened to fail him. Watkins has been charged with second degree sexual assault, sale of marijuana and risk of injury to a minor.

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Nicole Dufault

Nicole Dufault, a teacher from Maplewood, New Jersey, was arrested in September 2014 for having sex in
her car and school grounds with three 15-year-old high school students. Prosecutors said the
incidents occurred during the regular school year and summer school in 2013 and
2014.

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Stacy Schuler

Stacy Schuler, a 33-year-old high school health and gym teacher from southwest Ohio was convicted of having sex with five students in 2011. Some of them were football players. According to The Middletown Journal newspaper, a former high school football player testified that he and a friend had sex with Schuler at her home. The student also said he had sex with his teacher a total of seven times during five visits. She was sentenced to a total of four years in prison.

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Brittni Colleps

Brittni Colleps, a 28-year-old teacher, wife and mother of three, was convicted on 16 counts of having improper relationships with students in August 2012. She is currently serving a five-year jail term. Authorities say the 28-year-old former Kennedale High School English teacher had sex with the students at her Arlington, Texas home over a period of two months.

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Megan Crafton

Indiana police arrested high school cheerleading coach, Megan Crafton, after she allegedly had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student. Crafton plead not guilty to seducing a minor. Court records show the part-time assistant cheerleading coach at Shelbyville High School previously admitted to performing oral sex acts on the teen in her car. The student was reportedly a member of Shelbyville's basketball team.

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Carole Ann Hope

Police arrested 36-year-old South Carolina teacher Carole Ann Hope in 2011 after she allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old former middle school student. Hope, 38, was sentenced to ten years
in prison in the spring of 2014 with all but two years suspended. After she's
released from prison, Hope will serve five years probation and be listed on the
sex offender registry for the rest of her life.

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Sarah Jones

Former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones pleaded guilty on Oct. 8, 2012, to lesser charges on allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student when Jones was a teacher at Dixie Heights High School in northern Kentucky. Her mother, Cheryl Jones, also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of tampering with evidence. Both women avoided jail time as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.

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Ashley Anderson

Ashley Anderson, a high school teacher in Iowa, was charged with having inappropriate sexual relationships with four male students in 2011. The 24-year-old former Aplington-Parkersburg High School math teacher was charged with four counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee. According to a complaint, Anderson engaged in sexual misconduct with students ages 16-18 between fall/spring 2011. She sent students nudes photographs of herself and had intercourse with one student at his home. In June 2013, she was sentenced to five years in prison, running all three counts concurrent.

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Gabriela Compton

Phoenix police arrested 20-year-old middle school teacher's aide Gabriela Compton in March 2011 on suspicion of having sexual contact with two students. Police say Compton allegedly sent a photo of her breasts to some male students at Western Valley Middle School. According to court documents obtained by CBS affiliate KPHO, the nude picture was circulated throughout the school. In the course of the investigation, officers learned Compton previously had sexual contact with two male students, ages 13 and 14. Compton was charged with four counts of sexual conduct with a minor, two counts of sexual abuse and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor. In March 2012, she pled
guilty to the sexual abuse counts—and got a sentence of lifetime probation. She
had to register as a sex offender, but she didn't go to prison.

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Gail Gagne

Gail Gagne, a 28-year-old Minnesota high school teacher and coach, was convicted of fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct for having sex with a former student and football player in 2008. According to CBS affiliate WCCO, Gagne had been working in the weight room as a supervisor at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul when the two became acquainted. Gagne was 25 at the time; the student was 16. Gagne is the daughter of former professional wrestler Greg Gagne, and granddaughter of famous Twin Cities wrestler Verne Gagne. She was sentenced in 2011 and eventually got two years'
probation for a 365-day sentence. She also had to register as a sex offender.

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Tiffany Mosson

Indiana teacher Tiffany Mosson was arrested in April 2011 after allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student. The 35-year-old English teacher at Covington Community High School was charged with child seduction. Police say Mosson admitted she had sex with the male student at her house several times. Court documents obtained by CBS affiliate WISH show the relationship began with a note passed between the two in class. The two exchanged messages via text and social networking sites, then the teen began spending time at the teacher's house, sometimes for the whole weekend, say the documents.

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Nadia Diaz

California high school teacher Nadia Christine Diaz was arrested September 2011 for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old student in 2009. According to The Fresno Bee newspaper, the 26-year-old was charged of sex with a minor and oral copulation. Diaz had been working full-time as a social science teacher at Fresno's Washington Union High School. Fresno County Sheriff's officials say Diaz and the teenager had sexual relations twice off campus in January and Feb. 2009 when she was working as a substitute teacher at the school. The student was 14 at the time. Diaz was sentenced in 2012 to three years of probation and 30 days in an adult offender work program for having sex with a student in early 2010.

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Heather Lasseigne Chiasson

Heather Lasseigne Chiasson, a teacher at South Lafourche High School in Louisiana, was accused in Jan. 2012 for having sexual relations with a 17-year-old student she taught in 2011. The 29-year-old was charged with prohibited sexual conduct between an educator and a student and was suspended from her job. Police at Lafourche Parish Sheriff Department questioned the male student, who detailed the alleged sexual relationship. The student described it as a "flirtatious relationship" that allegedly escalated into sexual activity, including intercourse. Police said the student also showed detectives numerous text messages - some of a graphic sexual nature - apparently exchanged with Heather Lasseigne Chiasson.

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Lauren Redfern

Denver area high school teacher Lauren Redfern was arrested in Feb. 2012 after she was allegedly caught having sex with a 17-year-old male student in the teacher's bathroom. According to CBS Denver, the 26-year-old woman was charged with sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust with a pattern of sexual abuse, a class 3 felony. She was the teen's study hall teacher at Basalt High School, in Basalt, Colo. Redfern was sentenced to sex offender treatment in August 2012 and got no prison time.

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Kristin Leone

New Jersey high school teacher Kristin Leone was arrested in May 2012 for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student. Investigators determined the 26-year-old Clifton High School history teacher engaged in sexual conduct with the male student on at least two separate occasions. Leone was sentenced to a year in jail in 2013 after she pled guilty to having the sexual relationship.

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Kathyrin Murray

Kathyrin Murray, 29, a West Houston middle school teacher was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy at his home in 2012 while his parents were away. Police said they later discovered that Murray had sex with the same boy at a hotel on the night of a school dance and in her classroom in Memorial Middle School on two separate occasions.

Murray was removed from Memorial Middle School and let go from her position after the initial investigation. She was charged with two more counts of sexual abuse of a child and one count of improper relations on July 2. In 2014, Murray was sentenced
to a year in county jail.

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Kacy Wilson

Former Osceola County, Fla. teacher Kacy Wilson was arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student and sending pornographic photos to the teen, the Kissimmee Police Department reported on May 3, 2012. CBS affiliate WKMG reports that the 28-year-old was arrested in Salida, Colo. She was charged with one count of unlawful sexual activity with certain minors and one count of unlawful transmission of pornography by electronic device. In 2013, Wilson pleaded
guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, which carries a
sentence of 15 years of supervised probation.

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Sheral Smith

Sheral Smith, a former Mississippi private school teacher, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with a 14-year-old student. The relationship reportedly began in the summer of 2008.

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Loni Folks

Loni Marie Folks, a Missouri elementary school teacher, pleaded guilty in 2008 to having sex with a 16-year-old student. She was charged with sexual battery after she was accused of sleeping with a 16-year-old male foreign exchange student from Italy staying in the home of Folks and her husband. She was given a 12-year suspended sentence and required to register as a sex offender.

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Tara Driscoll

Tara Driscoll, a New York teacher was charged in August 2011 with having sex with an underage student at a Long Island motel. According to police, the victim's mother found out and contacted authorities. A board of education spokeswoman said Driscoll was removed from the classroom in May 2011. In 2012, she was sentenced to six years probation with sex offender conditions.

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Amy Victoria Beck

Amy Victoria Beck stunned officials when she walked into police headquarters in March 2010 and told detectives she had carried on a nine month affair with a 14-year-old former student. The 33-year-old former Burbank middle school teacher was sentenced to two years in a state prison.

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Melissa Petro

Melissa Petro, a New York City elementary school teacher, was reassigned after her school discovered she was a former prostitute in 2012. According to the New York Post, the tattooed sex worker taught art at Bronx elementary school PS 70 for three years and managed to keep her past life a secret from parents and faculty.

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Tericka Dye

Tericka Dye, a Missouri woman resigned from her job as a high school science teacher in 2011 after students learned that she was once porn star Rikki Andersin. She appeared in X-rated films like "Tight A**."

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Lisa Glide

Soap opera actress turned New Jersey high school drama teacher, Lisa Glide, was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to having sex with a high school student twice off campus in 2008. But the supposed 17-year-old victim says he pursued her. According to MyCentralJersey.com, at Glide's sentencing, the victim sent a letter on her behalf claiming "Lisa Glide was not a sexual predator."

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Heather Lynne Zeo

Heather Lynne Zeo, a North Penn School District high school math teacher in Pennsylvania, was suspended from her job for allegedly having sex with one of her students in the back seat of her family minivan and sending sexually explicit messages to another. Zeo is seen here arriving with her husband on July, 2009 for a hearing in district court in Lansdale, Pa.

She was sentenced in 2010 to one to 23 months in prison for having a sexual relationship with a student and having explicit conversations with another.

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Carrie McCandless

Carrie McCandless, a former Brighton Collegiate High School teacher and wife to the school principal in Colorado, was accused of having sexual contact with a 17-year-old student while chaperoning a school camping trip. She turned herself in to authorities in Nov. 2006, as seen in this undated mug shot.

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Carrie McCandless

Carrie McCandless, shown in this June 2007 photo during her sentencing hearing at Fort Collins, Colo., was found guilty of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a high school student. The 29-year-old was sentenced to 45 days in jail, five years on probation and a four-year deferred sentence

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Amber Jennings

Amber Jennings, of Sturbridge, Mass., is shown at her arraignment Aug. 2004 in Dudley, Mass. The 30-year-old Shepherd Hill Regional High School teacher was accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. She faced charges of inducing a minor under 18 "to have unlawful sexual intercourse" and sending him nude photos of herself.

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Amber Jennings

On Sept. 2005, Amber Jennings pleaded guilty to "disseminating harmful materials to a minor," in a plea agreement with prosecutors. According to court documents, she admitted emailing a 16-year-old student nude pictures of herself under the screen name "Redsox6606whore."

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Sandra Beth Geisel

Sandra "Beth" Geisel walks past the media as she turns herself in on Aug. 2005 to police. Geisel, a former English teacher at an all-boys Catholic high school was charged with rape for allegedly having sex twice with a 16-year-old student, once in a press box above the school's football field. Some believe she was actually the victim.

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Sandra Beth Geisel

Geisel, seen in this 2005 mug shot, made headlines again in 2006, but this time it was her bank president husband who was being accused of sexual misconduct. Geisel has since been released and made to register as a level one sex offender.

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Debra Lafave

Florida middle school teacher Debra Beasley Lafave, accused of having sex numerous times with a 14-year-old student, including once in a car while his 15-year-old cousin drove, sits at an Ocala, Fla., hearing in 2006. Young, bright, and beautiful - many were baffled that the 23-year-old newlywed threw it all away for her under-age victim.

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Debra Lafave

Debra Lafave was a reading teacher at Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Fla., a few miles north of Tampa when, in 2004, she was charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a person under 16 years old. Lafave was sentenced to three years house arrest and seven years probation. Many asked would a male teacher who had sex with a female student receive such a light sentence.

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Debra Lafave

Debra Lafave, now a registered sex offender, wipes her forehead as she leaves a Hillsborough County probation violation hearing Dec 18, 2007. In a decision on
Thursday, October 17, 2014, the Florida Supreme Court overturned an appellate
court ruling from last year that reinstated Lafave's sex offender probation. Lafave will remain on probation until her case can be heard by a
Hillsborough trial judge.

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Pamela Rogers Turner

Pamela Rogers Turner, a small-town phys-ed teacher and former college basketball player with movie star looks, was busted for repeatedly having sex with a 13-year-old male student, including once in the school gym. Here she is being led from a McMinnville, Tenn. Court, Aug., 2005. She was sentenced to eight years, but told to serve only 9 months.

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Pamela Rogers Turner

Pamela Rogers just couldn't stay away from the 13-year-old boy she was accused of having sex with. After serving 9 months in jail, she was arrested a second time in 2006 for contacting the boy and sending him sexually explicit texts, photos, and videos of herself.

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Pamela Rogers Turner

In July 2006, Pamela Rogers was ordered by a Tenn. judge to seven years in jail for violating her probation on a sentence for having sex with a 13-year-old boy. At the hearing she said, "I am willing to do anything to rehabilitate myself." Yet in 2007, she received an extra two years for again sending nude photos to the boy. According to the Felony
Offender Information Lookup website, she was released from the Tennessee Prison
for Women on Aug 12th 2012 at age 35.

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Mary Kay Letourneau-Fauulau

Former grade school teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau listens to testimony during a 1998 court hearing in Seattle. LeTourneau, then 35 and a married mother of four, was charged with child rape for her relationship with Vili Fualaau, who was in second grade when they met and only 12 when their sexual affair began.

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Mary Kay Letourneau-Fauulau

Mary Kay Letourneau had a baby with Vili Fualaau in July 1997 when he was 14-years-old. LeTourneau plead guilty to raping him on Aug. 1997 and served 7 1/2 years in prison.

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Mary Kay Letourneau-Fauulau

After serving her sentence, Mary Kay Letourneau married her victim/lover, Vili Fualaau, and raised two children with him. Letourneau, now 52, and Fualaau, later poked fun at their situation by hosting a series of "Hot for Teacher" parties at a Seattle nightclub, according to CBS affiliate KVAL.